Jan Bonekamp - Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Stood up to the Nazis

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  • @jesse0george
    @jesse0george Місяць тому +69

    My grandparents were active members of the resistance so as a Dutchman I'm very proud of the Dutch Resistance during WW2

  • @KohalaLover
    @KohalaLover Місяць тому +33

    Such loss of decent, brave people, Jan and Hannie. The Dutch underground had courage and determination. Yes, tears shed for Jan and for Hannie. Thank you World History & to your narrator too.

    • @jennymees5907
      @jennymees5907 22 дні тому

      they were not decent people, they were stalinist communists and killers; they murdered always from behind -they did nothing for the Duch people

  • @annagilda1
    @annagilda1 29 днів тому +34

    My grandfather was part of the Dutch reistance. He never spoke of it and i have only learned of this more recently, after his death. What was done, is just unbelievable.

  • @KurtAnderson812
    @KurtAnderson812 Місяць тому +33

    “There were many tears shed”…indeed tears were shed as I watched this video today.

    • @Wildcat221
      @Wildcat221 28 днів тому +5

      Almost all of these bring out the same emotions… this stuff hits hard.

  • @LRBerry
    @LRBerry Місяць тому +28

    I really enjoy the videos of those who fought back against the Nazis.

  • @ladycplum
    @ladycplum Місяць тому +99

    The Dutch Resistance did SO much to fight back against the Nazis. They were so bold and brave and innovative.

    • @fckworldecomicforum
      @fckworldecomicforum 27 днів тому

      En een hele hoop land verraders

    • @IcerinAlaska49
      @IcerinAlaska49 20 днів тому +3

      God Bless the Dutch!

    • @fckworldecomicforum
      @fckworldecomicforum 20 днів тому

      @@IcerinAlaska49Today, they are all docile sheeps

    • @ikwer111
      @ikwer111 17 днів тому +6

      And so few…

    • @ingeposch8091
      @ingeposch8091 12 днів тому +8

      as a matter of fact most Dutch did very little, mostly because of repraisals against families of resistance members...
      and there also were a lot of collaborators in our country.
      in fact we should be very ashamed for in our country the percentage of Jewish, Roma and Sinti people murdered by the nazi's is the highest of all occupied countries! the Danes and Norwegians rescued the stark majority of their Jewish citizens, they are the real heroïc people in dealing with the nazi occupiers.

  • @renskeconnell8038
    @renskeconnell8038 18 днів тому +7

    So very touching!
    Thank you for sharing the stories about Jan Bonekamp and Hannie Schaft.
    I read a book about Ms. Schaft. It was inspirational but also very sad. She was "discovered " while imprisoned. As had dyed her hair, in prison it starred to grow out. One of the guards noticed this and alerted the Gestapo. That is when she was brutally interrogated and then shot.
    I wished that those brutal german nazi's were caught and punished. Very few ever were...and lived full and "normal" lives after the war.
    RIP Jan and Hannie and so many others who fought against the Nazi tyranny and brutality.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +28

    These films are so Heartbreaking, but so Very Important! We Must Never Forget!!🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

    • @Thomas-yr9ln
      @Thomas-yr9ln Місяць тому

      Then Don't vote Republican if you want to keep fascists out of power.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +19

    It took an Incredible amount of Strength, and Courage to not only try to Survive each day, but Unimaginable Courage, and Will to Live to Resist!! Rest In Peace to All of the Innocent Victims Survivors and Those that Fought for Them! Amazing Resilience, and Heroes!🥀🥀🥀🥀🙏🙏🙏🙏💔💔💔💔🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @woodenseagull1899
    @woodenseagull1899 Місяць тому +33

    I am amazed how the Dutch ever forgave Germany. Let alone join them in the European Union later. The extent of war crimes is unforgivable.....

    • @AsscherMazzelaar
      @AsscherMazzelaar Місяць тому +12

      The Dutch forgave the Brits, Germans, spanish French, etc. I'm not sure why they shouldn't forgive the Germans.

    • @Occident.
      @Occident. Місяць тому +2

      They declared war on Germany on May 10th 1940. They asked for it!

    • @AsscherMazzelaar
      @AsscherMazzelaar Місяць тому +14

      @@Occident. Of course, after being invaded, they declared war

    • @quirkygreece
      @quirkygreece 27 днів тому

      The initial premise of the EU was to integrate European economies to such an extent that it would be impossible for them to ever fight each other again. Only the far right (those who historically start wars) don’t understand this . . .

    • @vercot7000
      @vercot7000 26 днів тому +2

      @@Occident. You are wrong, also, communism is good.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +11

    The Horrific, and Beyond Devastating Suffering is Incomprehensible!! My heart aches for Them! Prayers the Survivors were able to find Peace.🙏🙏🙏🙏🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @ejlufpedersen742
    @ejlufpedersen742 29 днів тому +10

    I've read several books about the brave Dutch resistance. I'm going to Amsterdam in May and have planned to visit the " Verzets Museum"

  • @vaughnmojado8637
    @vaughnmojado8637 Місяць тому +10

    The Dutch Resistance Fighters were fierce. In all actuality, all resistance fighters were. But these Dutch fought hard for their country. I’ll never understand how people could hate anyone they deem inferior.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +19

    The Resistance Fighters were Very Courageous Heroes!

    • @DT-wp4hk
      @DT-wp4hk Місяць тому

      Nope. Most were communists. Commiting crimes to justify their own agenda

  • @user-ke8if6ri9r
    @user-ke8if6ri9r 23 дні тому +8

    The first time I went to Amsterdam I found a small hotel not far from Central Station. I asked about getting a room for three days. I offered to pay upfront in American dollars. The man checking me in started smiling. "That's why we love Americans here in Amsterdam. You take care of business first". I then found out that American and Canadian paratroopers had landed on warehouse roofs and the dock area to liberate the city. It was heavy fighting for every yard. I saw monuments on the Dam in remembrance of the groups in the Resistance. I came across some graffiti in Germany on that trip. "Gib Nazis Keine Chance". "Give Nazis No Opportunity".

    • @ZekeRivers
      @ZekeRivers 16 днів тому +1

      If you have an opportunity, look up the history of Margraten cemetery.

  • @malic_zarith
    @malic_zarith Місяць тому +10

    The nazis were monsters. They're so bad they've got me rooting for communists in most of the ww2 stories, and I'm not communist.

    • @Bailey2006a
      @Bailey2006a Місяць тому

      Stalin killed 20 million of his own people. So, be careful who you root for...

    • @namvet1968
      @namvet1968 19 днів тому

      The Red Army had guts. Suffered incredible losses.

    • @Rtg5637
      @Rtg5637 16 днів тому +1

      ​@@namvet1968The Red Army were martyred by Stalin who employed strategies that required sacrifing millions of own troops instead of smart life saving maneuvers. This is why the casualty ratio on the Eastern front was 7:1.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +11

    Good morning, and again, Thank You for your Important, Informative, and Excellent videos. My Favorite World History Channel.🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

  • @annehersey9895
    @annehersey9895 Місяць тому +11

    It’s nice to see stories where many tears WERE and still are shed for people! There were just so many monsters in the Nazi n Soviet regimes that this is a nice change! Thank you.

  • @paulwilliamford6789
    @paulwilliamford6789 Місяць тому +25

    What a girl, a true hero.

    • @jerseyreddjc3569
      @jerseyreddjc3569 Місяць тому

      Jan was a man.

    • @jennymees5907
      @jennymees5907 22 дні тому

      no hero, just a stalinist communist party member who had an illicit affaire with Bonekamp (who had a wife and child)

  • @TheRetirednavy92
    @TheRetirednavy92 Місяць тому +7

    Many tears shed

  • @hs7921
    @hs7921 21 день тому +3

    Videos like this are inspiring and important. I have only just found out that my mother was active in the resistance. 80 years for the story to come out. I will go to the Verzetsmuseum when I go to Holland in the next few months.

  • @michaelmazowiecki9195
    @michaelmazowiecki9195 Місяць тому +9

    The Dutch Resistance most feared Dutch collaborating Nazis who, in their tens of thousands, acted as ancillaries to the Gestapo and even volunteered to join the Waffen SS (over 22,000). About 65,000 collaborators fled the Netherlands in 1944/5. There were far fewer people in the Resistance, 5-12,000 in total.

    • @martijnb5887
      @martijnb5887 20 днів тому +5

      That is a matter of definition. The number of people involved in violent resistance was not that high. Apart from spying, war military resistance was pointless in the Dutch context. But at some pointer 350.000 people were hiding to escape deportation to concentration camps, POW camps or forced labour in Germany. All these people needed to be fed and sheltered. Food was only available with official papers that were obviously not available to them. So papers had to be forged or stolen and distributed. That means the the number of people involved in hiding those sought by the Germans ( the "onderduikers" ) was probably close a million. The acts involved were most far from spectacular, but deadly nevertheless if you were caught by the Germans. All those people were part of a resistance and should be respected for their moral compass and courage.

    • @michaelmazowiecki9195
      @michaelmazowiecki9195 20 днів тому +2

      @@martijnb5887 the number I quoted, 5-12000, was active lethal armed resistance. Civil resistance was much greater and could take many forms. What is sad is the role and results of the actions of Dutch Nazis.

  • @mijnheer1
    @mijnheer1 29 днів тому +7

    Compliments for your pronounciation of the Dutch names!

  • @roaropgard8575
    @roaropgard8575 Місяць тому +9

    Rest in peace
    I shed tears for you 😭😭

  • @tonnywildweasel8138
    @tonnywildweasel8138 16 днів тому +2

    Thank you very much for this vid, I appreciate it a lot 👍
    Greetings from the Netherlands ✌, TW.

    • @WorldHistoryVideos
      @WorldHistoryVideos  16 днів тому +1

      Hi Tonny. Thank you for your kind words. We love the Netherlands and travel there every year ... glad you appreciate our focus on your country in this project.
      Greetings

  • @robinred1851
    @robinred1851 14 днів тому +2

    Jan Bonekamp was not a brutal Nazi killer. In the resistance you are not a killer, you are a FIGHTER!!!
    A fighter for your freedom.
    In my hometown Nijmegen there was also such a resistance hero. His name is Jan van Hoof. He was killed by a German sniper.

  • @renee1961
    @renee1961 Місяць тому +7

    They are Beautiful Monuments. Rest In Peace 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @namcat53
    @namcat53 21 день тому +5

    Always fight and defeat fascism.

  • @tagquasar8791
    @tagquasar8791 20 днів тому +3

    I live in the northern part of the Netherlands and in most if not all little villages and/or woodlands around there are memorials for those that have been executed in the last days of the war. Either because they were actively involved in the resistance or as retribution. Not to mention the many signs of jewish people who never returned or returned devastated by unspeakable hardship. There is no question of forgiveness, its an understanding that life goes on. There was too much broken to think about forgiveness or retribution after the war.

  • @karenjohnson5634
    @karenjohnson5634 Місяць тому +4

    I watch these videos and see the people getting on the trains. I look at their faces. I know their fate as they innocently cooperate. And I think, “what would do in those situations?” I pray I never have to know what I’d do.

  • @skyhigh1154
    @skyhigh1154 22 дні тому +2

    The movie " het meisje met het rode haar" (the girl with the red hair) is on youtube for you to watch. An old but great movie about Hannie en Jan. With Renee Soutendijk as Hannie. When you have the time be sure to watch it. 👍📽📺

  • @johnmchugh-dt7gg
    @johnmchugh-dt7gg 28 днів тому +3

    For anyone who may be interested there is a Dutch film available free on u tube called ''de meisje met rode haar'' [the girl with red hair] which I recomend watching as it covers some of the events in this excellent documentary. Alas the film is in Dutch but its worth watching if only to see the execution of the collaborator Ragut by Hannie Schaft and Jan bonekamp in one of the most memorable scenes I shall never forget..

  • @crlclssic
    @crlclssic Місяць тому +6

    Love your vids 🙌

  • @tigertiger1699
    @tigertiger1699 20 днів тому +2

    That I might have the courage and conviction…..

  • @diedertspijkerboer
    @diedertspijkerboer 19 днів тому +2

    There's so much debate about the bombing of German cities by the allies these days, but nazi Germany bombed lots of other cities before, including one before WW2: the Spanish town of Guernica, which they bombed during the Spanish civil war in the 1937.

    • @namvet1968
      @namvet1968 19 днів тому +1

      Picasso's painting is incredible.

  • @rupertmcnaughtdavis3649
    @rupertmcnaughtdavis3649 19 днів тому +2

    They don't want to know about this at Columbia University.

  • @chrishiking8818
    @chrishiking8818 27 днів тому +1

    They were dutch heroes like the many here in the Netherlands. The 4th May we will remember them all .

  • @danielagiurbino7995
    @danielagiurbino7995 Місяць тому +3

    Totally true

  • @jimnorthland2903
    @jimnorthland2903 19 днів тому +1

    I met a man in Holland that had a concentration camp number tattoo on his arm.

  • @RenateMtV
    @RenateMtV 11 днів тому

    Not everyone knew that Mauthausen was a death sentence. Strongly suspected, but not known.

  • @walterschumann2476
    @walterschumann2476 20 днів тому +2

    I read that more Dutch joined the Waffen SS then were active in the resistance.

    • @010Jordi
      @010Jordi 18 днів тому

      The people who collaborated and resisted are both about 5% of the population 90% did neither.

    • @timdebruijne9127
      @timdebruijne9127 12 днів тому

      I don't know the actual numbers but we dutchies sent over 100k Jews to death camps. And we had the highest percentage of men joining the Waffen SS for fighting in Russia. If you study the actual resistance operations that the Germans had to report every week to Berlin, it mostly consisted of blowing up a train track of killing a Nazi or NSB members. And hiding Jews or allied soldiers etc. The Germans sometimes didn't have anything to report for that week, the logs showed after the war.
      We hated being occupied, but the overwhelming majority of Dutch people kept their heads down, looked away and tried to survive the war. And if it were me, I'd probably do the same.
      The people in the Dutch resistance are true heroes, risking their own life to save many others.

    • @12vibaba
      @12vibaba 12 днів тому

      @@timdebruijne9127 Exactly. And if you hear people now, almost every great grandfather was in the resistance.

    • @spraakkanon
      @spraakkanon 12 годин тому

      That isn't correct. I get your point but why lie and exaggerate to get your point across?

  • @gtaylor331
    @gtaylor331 13 днів тому +1

    Brutal killer? I would expect a Nazi sympathizer to use that terminology. Jan Bonekamp was a true, hero, a fighter for freedom...I honestly find many of your titles very disturbing.

  • @williamcanter3233
    @williamcanter3233 2 дні тому +1

    Father was in WWII Germany and uncle WW11 south Pacific God bless America

    • @spraakkanon
      @spraakkanon 12 годин тому

      Leave it up to a nationalistic American to turn every subject into something about America.

  • @amandanithavrianakis2996
    @amandanithavrianakis2996 23 дні тому +3

    As a British person, your voice confuses me. Why the weird force behind it? It sounds like a comedy parody. The content is great but what's going on? 😂

  • @shannonsullivan1968
    @shannonsullivan1968 18 днів тому +1

    What remarkable and brave Dutch patriots!

  • @MarquezRobinson
    @MarquezRobinson 24 дні тому

    He's a Taurus ♉️ like me 👍🏿

  • @lindacosta5688
    @lindacosta5688 22 дні тому +3

    Many people don’t know that the Dutch were the last group of people to be liberated. Their country was under siege until May, 1945. During this siege, Dutch people had very little food, water and medical supplies. The Canadians finally liberated Holland.

    • @Misses-Hippy
      @Misses-Hippy 20 днів тому +1

      As a Canadian, I was made very welcome when I moved to Amsterdam 35 years ago.

  • @edwardtosh3291
    @edwardtosh3291 21 день тому +2

    Over wrought narrator voice

  • @womenfrom0202
    @womenfrom0202 11 днів тому

    Bit of a background on the February strike in 1941. At the ice shop “Koco” the jewish owner and his brother/friends stood up against a German police check. Some police were injured and I believe someone was killed. As per the normal Nazi reaction, but for the first time in The Netherlands, they organized two razzia’s, rounding up hundreds of Jews. As a high number of locals of Amsterdam, witnessed this, some organizer the strike by stopping public transit and the waste collectors. In the end the whole of Amsterdam was on strike.
    After two day the Germans started shooting and arresting people. And on top of this all, the city of Amsterdam was fined for 15 million guilders! (Wages were some guiders a week at the time)

  • @carrickrichards2457
    @carrickrichards2457 27 днів тому +4

    There were few (and no organised) Dutch resistance networks. German penetration was complete and many dutch and every single SOE or OSS operative sent to Holland were captured and either killed or turned.

    • @digity66
      @digity66 24 дні тому +1

      Tell that ti Ragut...

  • @ElgrandeRick810817
    @ElgrandeRick810817 День тому

    7:14 That is the grote markt square in Haarlem, strange to see Germans soldiers riding around there. Even stranger, it was also the site where the Spanish conducted mass executions after they stormed Haarlem after a 10 month siege in 1573. Funny thing is for me as a local, personally the Grote Markt has always been a really happy place filled with fun and festivities.

  • @stephenjwprior6358
    @stephenjwprior6358 20 днів тому +5

    What a heroic - Long Live Israel XX from London.... Ten Lost Tribes of Israel 🦁

  • @mariantebb6730
    @mariantebb6730 Місяць тому +1

    Should have been,what? 😢😢😢😢

  • @willhovell9019
    @willhovell9019 13 днів тому

    The history of the Netherlands in WW2, is complex and mixed, the NSB, the

  • @Leon-bc8hm
    @Leon-bc8hm 19 днів тому

    To bad the royal house treated the resistance badly. England spiel for e.g.

  • @charlesvanderhoog7056
    @charlesvanderhoog7056 14 днів тому

    The picture at 04:40 is at Olympiaplein, Amsterdam, and in 2023 has been turned into a monument for remembrance of deportation of Jews with 'shadows' from that very picture. Paid for by government and openedby schoolkids and mayor. I live nearby that spot.

  • @hohenstaufen.1010
    @hohenstaufen.1010 17 днів тому

    Frw Legion Niederlande
    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @cyirvine6300
    @cyirvine6300 21 день тому

    Do US citizens have this kind of guts?

    • @Leon-bc8hm
      @Leon-bc8hm 19 днів тому

      Well they let traitor trump walking around freely even after his Beer hall putsch at Jan 6th. His MAGA waving the the rebel flags AND swastikas. So there is your answer.

  • @ingejustavanderhelm5208
    @ingejustavanderhelm5208 22 дні тому

    Jan Bonekamp was actually born in IJmuiden.

  • @seandobson499
    @seandobson499 29 днів тому +2

    Have you got a speech impediment?

  • @Apollo-fp4cu
    @Apollo-fp4cu 5 днів тому +1

    En nu noemen ze het verzet in Palestina terroristen ,het ondergrondse werden ook terroristen genoemd

  • @subatomic10
    @subatomic10 15 днів тому

    Is this a legit accent by the narrator ?

  • @JohnSmith-pl2bk
    @JohnSmith-pl2bk 20 днів тому +2

    Get the bloody AI bot voice out of these vids..
    There are billions of English speakers...
    please get one to narrate this...

  • @rafaelramos1486
    @rafaelramos1486 21 день тому

    Better than the french

  • @cyirvine6300
    @cyirvine6300 21 день тому

    About the disclaime. You don't include violence against political usurpers.

  • @jonathanchalk2507
    @jonathanchalk2507 21 день тому

    WWII started on the 3rd of September when Britain and France declared war on Germany.

    • @haeuptlingaberja4927
      @haeuptlingaberja4927 19 днів тому +1

      No, it started in Munich in 1938 when Britain and France appeased Hitler by giving him Czechoslovakia. If the West had said No to your hero, the Wehrmacht would have been crushed within 6 months. No second world war, no death camps in Poland, no 70 million dead.

  • @womenfrom0202
    @womenfrom0202 11 днів тому

    Indeed after the war everyone had resisted the Nazi’s😂 if the had, the whole Jewish community would not have been destroyed, they had given the survivors of the death camps their houses and belongings back. They would not have charged them for the transportation fees t those camps. I could go on.
    Not that I know what to do in such a predicament, however, I do hope I would not shout out I was part of the restistance.

  • @Wuestenfuchs47
    @Wuestenfuchs47 17 днів тому

    A brutal murderer. Good thing they caught him.

    • @womenfrom0202
      @womenfrom0202 11 днів тому

      Well given that the person they shot was a vile collaborators, responsible for a number of arrests (meaning a certain death), it’s also an act of resistance.

  • @elwoodblues452
    @elwoodblues452 16 днів тому

    The titel should be, in correct perspective and english: "...to brutal killer of nazis".

  • @fncusmc5585
    @fncusmc5585 21 день тому +1

    Using the word brutal in titles where there is justice not brutality is misleading.

  • @fncusmc5585
    @fncusmc5585 21 день тому

    The Dutch resistance was the best and most powerful resistance in Europe. Unfortunately since Holland was half pro Nazi, the U.S. military was reluctant to accept Dutch resistance help and military intelligence.